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From: Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: How do computations actually work?
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 10:12:44 +0300
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On 2025-05-23 03:23:31 +0000, wij said:

> On Thu, 2025-05-22 at 21:47 -0500, olcott wrote:
>> [cut]
> 
> Q: How do computations actually work?
> A: Computation is merely step-by-step algorithm.
>    Nothing says it has to be TM.
> 
> Do the exercises in textbooks first before any claim of it.

However, no computation is known that can be performed but not with a
Turing machine.

-- 
Mikko